Install Problem: 'jpeglib.h' file not found

[georgecoltart]

I've been going round the bend trying to solve this.
When I attempt to install I get:

npm install canvas
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/canvas
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/canvas
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nan
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/nan

> canvas@1.1.1 install /Users/georgecoltart/Sites/tilestitch/node_modules/canvas
> node-gyp rebuild

  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/canvas/src/Canvas.o
In file included from ../src/Canvas.cc:19:
../src/JPEGStream.h:11:10: fatal error: 'jpeglib.h' file not found
#include <jpeglib.h>
         ^
1 error generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/canvas/src/Canvas.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:267:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:789:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
gyp ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/georgecoltart/Sites/tilestitch/node_modules/canvas
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.21
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v0.10.10
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Having done a search, the jpeglib.h file is in /usr/include/jpeglib.h
I'm pretty sure I installed it correctly, but it must be a broken reference.

Can someone tell me where this jpeg lib is expected to be located for the canvas install to find it?

Thanks a lot.

[mojodna]

jpeglib.h is in /usr/local/include on my system, having been installed via brew install jpeg. How did you install it?

[georgecoltart]

Yes it was installed via brew, and it does exist at that location: /usr/local/include
Should the npm install be looking there?
Im on 10.9 which might not be helping things...

[mojodna]

I just upgraded from 10.7 to 10.9, so I'm trying to reproduce.

npm install cairo didn't work out of the box (where it previously did), even with PKG_CONFIG set. So far, I've done the following:

brew uninstall cairo
brew install cairo
# fails, tells me to link pixman
brew link pixman
brew install cairo
# fails, tells me to install XQuartz
# install XQuartz
brew install cairo
# fails, tells me to install Xcode Command Line Tools
xcode-select --install
brew install cairo
# installs glib, cairo
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig npm install canvas
# installs node-canvas successfully

I didn't do anything with jpeg here, but you might have better luck brew uninstall jpeg && brew install jpeg first...

[georgecoltart]

Fixed!
I seemed to have missed any warning about Xcode Command Tools, and was certain that Cairo had successfully installed where maybe it hadnt. I'd reinstalled it a number of times without any warnings.

O well thanks a lot!

[isnolan]

I also encountered this problem, no solution

[georgecoltart]

If you are on Mavericks, you'll need to install the Xcode command line tools, even if you did it on mountain lion.
See top answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9329243/xcode-4-4-and-later-install-command-line-tools

The errors I was getting didnt mention anything about this, however it was this that fixed the issue, so I would double check you have this installed correctly.

[isnolan]

I'm on Mavericks. Thanks a lot , I have solved.

brew update
brew doctor
xcode-select --install
brew install cairo gobject-introspection pixman

[ajatolah]

I had the same problem, yhostc's solution solved it, thank you

[davidrinnan]

I had the same problem. Found this post. Wrote 'xcode-select --install'
in terminal and installed xcode command line tools via the prompt
retried npm install canvas and it worked directly without issues and without reinstalling cairo via homebrew. so many thanks @georgecoltart

[soyuka]

Thanks @yhostc! xcode-select --install did the trick. I think this comes from my recent migration to Mavericks.

My steps were:

brew install cairo
brew link cairo
#see brew issue below
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig
xcode-select --install
npm i canvas

see #14123 for the pkgconfig

This should definitely be added to the wiki.

[nodecode]

I had the same problem, and I have long searched on the internet, but nothing has solved the problem. But now with brew uninstall jpeg && brew install jpeg it finally worked. jpeg was indeed installed before, but apparently there was a mistake. Thanks @mojodna

$ brew uninstall jpeg && brew install jpeg
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/8d...
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/jpeg-8d.mavericks.bottle.2.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100,0%
==> Pouring jpeg-8d.mavericks.bottle.2.tar.gz
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/8d: 18 files, 780K

[piranna]

I'm having the same problem, but in this case in Ubuntu 14.10, not on OSX... :-(

[PaulMougel]

Here's how I fixed it:

1. Install X11
2. Run

$ xcode-select --install
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig
$ npm install

[dosapati]

Had the same issue, yhostc's solution solved it, thank you

[yaserabdelaziz]

No one of these solutions helped in my case, but this helped fix it :
https://gist.github.com/darul75/9125097

[piranna]

I think node-canvas should download the dependencies and compile them statically to prevent this problems...

[Drjacky]

What about in ubuntu?!

[piranna]

My fork download all dependencies and compike them statically inside the canvas.node binary, so these problems are not happening anymore. I did a pull-request sometime ago.

[dbkaplun]

+1

[lizhanhui]

For Ubuntu users, please install the package: libjpeg-dev
It works for Wily(15.04 64bit).

[0326]

$ xcode-select --install works for mac!

[tomerb15]

I did a lot of the things writen here for my mac OSX but non seam to work.

Finally i uninstalled node-canvas from my node_modules library and reinstall it and now i can work with jpegs!

I feel like i have won a gold medal at the Olympics

[whxaxes]

great !!!!!!!!! xcode-select --install works

thanks a lot

[LinusU]

Please try xcode-select --install :)

[piranna]

As I said before, by compiling statically this problem gets fixed. My pull-request is waiting...

[zhaotai]

My solution is the same with @LinusU.
Just xcode-select --install.

[javadba]

xcode-select --install works for me.